TOTTENHAM will finish the Europa League group stages top of Group K after seeing off Tromso 2-0 in a dull affair at the Alfheim Stadium in Norway this evening.

Tottenham struggled to get going throughout and it was certainly not the emphatic response Andre Villas-Boas will have hoped for following Spurs 6-0 thrashing at the hands of Manchester City on Sunday.

Villas-Boas made nine changes from the side that lost to City and it was a disjointed display from the Londoners but they got the win thanks to an own goal from Adnan Causevic and a strike from Mousa Dembele.

Tromso had the better of the early exchanges and Zdenek Ondrasek threatened the Spurs defence in the opening couple of minutes.

When Spurs did get forward and start to dominate their crosses lacked accuracy and there was a general lack of movement up front.

In the 20th minute Spurs came close after good link up play between Gylfi Sigurdsson and Andros Townsend but the Icelandic midfielder put his shot wide of the post.

Andre Villas-Boas made nine changes from the side that lost to Manchester City [ACTION IMAGES]

Spurs were not as emphatic as the scoreline suggests

Townsend continued to cause Tromso problems but Spurs really lacked a cutting edge and the ball simply refused to fall kindly for them in the six-yard box with Nacer Chadli particularly guilty of wasting good opportunities for the visitors.

Things didn't get much better after the break, although Spurs did at least manage to get the ball in the net through Roberto Soldado in the 55th minute only for the effort to be ruled out for handball.

Spurs finally the lead in the 63rd minute, Vlad Chiriches getting on the end of a Sigurdsson free-kick and forcing Tromso defender Causevic to put the ball in his own net.

Dembele doubled the lead in the 76th minute after Lewis Holtby and Sigurdsson combined to put him through on goal with a nice interchange of passing.

The floodgates threatened to open after that and Dembele missed a glorious double chance to extend the lead further hitting the post when through on goal and then putting the follow up into the side netting from a tight angle.

The result confirms that Tottenham will finish top of their group as they are now seven points clear of second-placed Anzhi Makhachkala who could only draw 1-1 with Sheiff Tiraspol earlier this evening.